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Title: General Employment Effects of Ban-the-Box and Certificate of Restoration Policies

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2021

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Abstract: The proliferation of the incarcerated population in the late 1900s and early 2000s has resulted in a large-scale loss of economic opportunities for incarcerated people, as the label “felon” follows ex-offenders throughout their employment search process after release. In 2020, over 608,000 sentenced inmates were released from state and federal correctional institutions (Carson, 2020). In the nine years following release, five in six state inmates released in 2005 were arrested at least once, and in the three years following release, two-thirds were arrested for a new crime (Alper et al., 2018). Research has shown that ex-offenders who are able to find employment after release are much less likely to recidivate, meaning that they have a decreased probability of engagement in criminal activity again (Holzer et al., 2003; Yang, 2017). As crime is costly, both in terms of psychological and financial damage, reducing recidivism is key to improving the overall wellbeing of society. Thus, increasing employment opportunities for qualified ex-offenders produces social, economic, and individual benefit by reducing future crime, decreasing costs of crime, and providing meaningful employment.

Url: https://gceps.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CarenJu_Ashenfelter_JIWFinal-1.pdf

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Authors: Ju, Caren

Institution: Princeton

Department: Economics

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Pages: 1-44

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Topics: Crime and Deviance, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Poverty and Welfare

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